Skier/surfer/snowboarder/(insert extreme sport here) athlete Chuck Patterson recently added the video above to his Vimeo channel. According to Patterson’s video description he had encounters with multiple white sharks while SUP boarding the day before this video was shot, so he decided to bring his GoPro camera with him mounted on a 10′ pole. Patterson estimated the great white in the video to be about 9′ in length and wrote that he encountered another smaller white shark a minute later.

WECT.com is reporting that an 8′ sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) washed up on Carolina Beach last night around 11:30pm. According to the report, “police pulled the shark out of the water and let it die on shore.” The shark was pulled from the water by a tow-truck and “towed throughout the beach town.”

The sand tiger shark had punctures around the mouth area indicative of having been caught and reeled in. The sand tiger is listed as a prohibited species by the National Marine Fisheries Service.

MyFoxNY.com has reported that conflicting accounts of “small” or “baby” sharks seen around Rockaway Beach resulted in lifeguards clearing the water for about an hour on Saturday. Accounts of the shark sightings ranged from one to three sharks being spotted. One witness told NY1 that a shark was tugging on the leg strap of a female surfer and that two more sharks were “circling her.” The scare resulted in swimmers and surfers evacuating the water, but they were allowed to return after an hour. No other subsequent incidents were reported after beach goers were allowed to return to the water.

New York Aquarium‘s Jon Dohlin was quick to point out to the news anchor in the clip above that the sharks are always out there, and the ones that are being reportedly sighted do not pose a real threat to swimmers and surfers. Despite the fact that the sharks being reported are considered to be generally harmless, it hasn’t slowed other media outlets from over-hyping the animals. The New York Post referred to the sharks as “finned fiends” and “toothy terrors,” while the New York Daily News ran with a headline referring to the sharks as “deadly fish.”

Update:Patti Banner, the radio personality seen reluctantly eating the shark meat in the video, has posted a response in the comments section of this post. Please, visit the comments for her take on the event.

Apparently, Discovery Networks’ attempted shark conservation message was lost on KOLA 99.9’s Wake Up Bunch, as radio personality Patti Banner ate shark meat on the air “in honor of Shark Week,” according to the YouTube video information posted by the radio station.

Jimmy Kimmel Live had an exclusive look at Discovery Channel’s next big thing. Check out the video above for Discovery’s follow-up to Shark Week. Some might argue that this could be an improvement to some of the programming that’s been on Shark Week the past few years.

Nantucket’s The Inquirer and Mirror is reporting that Pete Kaizer, captain of the Althea K came across what he had initially believed to be a dead great white shark floating motionless on its back at the surface 10 miles northeast of Nantucket, late last month. According to Kaizer, the shark appeared uninjured, so a mate withdrew a gaff with the intention of hooking the shark by the jaw to get a better look at it. Prior to gaff attempt, the mate jokingly nudged the shark’s nose and was in the process of jokingly saying, “I’m making sure it’s not sleeping,” but before he could get the whole sentence out, the shark “sprang to life and began barreling into the boat,” said Kaizer.

While this might sound like another “fish story,” at first, the original article does include a photo of what appears to be an adult female white shark on her back at the surface. From the sounds of it, the shark was likely sick and/or near-death, as lying motionless on one’s back is not typical behavior for a white shark. White sharks need to continue moving in order to pass water through their gills and typically will tend to sink when motionless.

SharkDiver’s Underwater Thrills Blog has suggested that the shark may have had a distended belly as a result of “a recent whale meal, or a blockage in its stomach that caused gas build up.”

Fox Providence’s The Rhode Show talk about recent unconfirmed shark sightings which close Westport’s Horseneck Beach. There are plenty of opinions going around on both sides of the argument The Rhode Show’s The Buzz ranging from the “Jaws scarred me for life” mentality to the “sharks are always in the ocean” mentality.

Horseneck Beach has been closed twice this week after shark sightings were reported. On Monday a shark was spotted by a fisherman. On Wednesday lifeguards spotted what “appeared to be a shark” less than 100m from shore. A decision will be made this morning on whether to re-open the beach after police and “shark experts” inspect the waters around the beach via helicopter.

According to a Daily Telegraph article Andrew Eckersley and a “lone surfer” came to the aid of a beached 3m male great white shark on a Mid-North Coast beach in New South Wales last week. The pair used logs that they had found on the beach to help move the shark back into the water where it was able to swim away. However, the shark was found dead on the same beach the following day. The shark jaws had been illegally “hacked out by someone as a souvenir,” according to the Daily Telegraph.

Craig Ferguson of The Late Late Show gives a comedic take on great white shark sightings in the video above. While the monologue is done in jest, Ferguson brings up some valid points about the media and how often times other species are misidentified as great white sharks.

MyFoxPhilly.com is reporting that a story about a blue shark “beaching itself” on a New Jersey beach is the result of a fisherman reeling the hooked shark onto the beach. CBS3.com has a different take on the story quoting Melissa Nick of the Seaside Park Beach Patrol as explaining, “a fisherman caught a fish, was reeling it in and the shark chased after the fish.”

The “fish story” has made the rounds among various media outlets with headlines such as "Beached Shark Terrifies Swimmers", "New Jersey Shark Sighting: Sand Shark Causes Panic (which misidentifies the species), and "Another shark scare in New Jersey." Seaside Beach was reportedly closed after the sighting according to NBCNewYork.com.

The blue shark (Prionace glauca) is generally considered harmless toward humans and has a diet that consists primarily of squid, crustaceans, and bony fish. Blue sharks are typically found in deep water, but it is not unheard for them to be found close to shore.